scantness > define
noun
- The quality of being meager."an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes-George Eliot
- synonyms: meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, exiguity
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(n.) The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary